If it is the application at www.embird.com, its basic installer consists of a WinZip self-extractor that then runs some wizard (after starting program manager?!). It eventually fails due to program group creation issues? (I quickly tested it... I'm waiting for a server to complete something and didn't have much else to do...) Setup log starts with: $ wine embrd2k10b87.exe fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 4d004 fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub fixme:shell:Dde_OnWildConnect stub err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} not registered err:ole:create_server class {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} could be created for context 0x5 Log then contains lots of these: fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x1c,4,0x92e150): stub And this at the end: err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} not registered err:ole:create_server class {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {ac129136-eb1c-4fff-b0a2-6d6761be4138} could be created for context 0x5 Gert